4.2% ▼ -24.9%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.6%
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 4.2%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Torbay · Suburb / Locality
Language in Torbay
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
Only 4.2% of people in Torbay use a language other than English at home, which is far below the national figure. This makes the area much less linguistically diverse than most of Australia and Western Australia. English is the dominant language spoken across the community.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 80.2% of residents, while Italian is the most common other language at 2.6%. While no one here speaks little or no English, this is actually higher than in most similar areas.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people who use another language at home and speak English not well or not at all. No 2011 figure — that census only asked proficiency of overseas-born residents.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Torbay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51462/torbay/topic/language